In the Shadow of the Great War

Jochen Böhler is director of the Vienna Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies. His publications include Civil War in Central Europe: The Reconstruction of Poland, 1918–1921 (Oxford University Press, 2018).

““Despite the increased attention that the region and the era have received recently, there is much that we still need to learn, and this collection is a welcome addition to the existing historiography.” • The Journal of East Central European Studies“Overall, the volume offers a broad panorama of the history of violence in East Central Europe. The individual essays are thematically diverse and offer an excellent synthesis of multilingual sources of research literature and theory.” • H-Soz-Kult“This is an excellent collection of high-quality essays on a topic that is at the cutting edge of the field and which builds on a fast-growing interest in the impacts of the First World War.” • Roland Clark, University of Liverpool

• IntroductionJochen Böhler, Ota Konrád and Rudolf KučeraChapter 1. The Baltikumer: Collective Violence and German Paramilitaries after 1918Mathias VoigtmannChapter 2. Pogroms and Imposture: The Violent Self-Formation of Ukrainian WarlordsChristopher GilleyChapter 3. Toward an Interactional Theory of Sexual Violence: The White Terror in Hungary between 1919 and 1921Béla BodóChapter 4. The Many Lives of Mrs. Hamburger: Gender, Violence, and Counter-Revolution, 1919–1930Emily R. GioielliChapter 5. “A Little Murderous Party”: Poland after the First World War in the Works of Joseph RothWinson ChuChapter 6. Suicide Discourses: The Austrian Example in the International Context from World War I to the 1930sHannes LeidingerChapter 7. The “Healthy Nerves” of the Nation: War Neuroses in Austria-Hungary and its Successor StatesMaciej GórnyChapter 8. Forging a “Winning Spirit”: The North American YMCA and the Czechoslovak Army 1918–1921Ondřej MatějkaChapter 9. When the Defeated Become Victorious: Averting Violence with Football in Post-1918 RomaniaCătălin ParfeneAfterword: The End of the Great War and Postwar Problems—Research ConclusionsBoris Barth